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Change in Dress Code and Concerns

February 25, 2019

We want to take just a moment to let you know what is happening with the dress code as we feel you may be hearing about it from your child.

We have asked students who are wearing long sleeves, hoodies, sweatshirts, coats, etc., to push their sleeves up where we can see the lower part of their forearm. We have done this because of students "vaping" in school. They will hide the small Juul unit in their hand while pulling their sleeve over their hand. The student then will put their sleeve up to their hand, breathe it in and expel the vapor into the sleeve where staff cannot see it. This slight change in the dress code makes this much more difficult to do. We have increased our monitoring of the bathroom that secondary students are using due to reports of "vaping" going on in the restrooms between classes.

These products are dangerous and not available for purchase by students under 18 years of age due to the high nicotine content of the "pods." We take this potential health hazard to our students seriously and will help parents to prevent poor decisions being made by students. We did take into consideration that many of our students wear these clothes because they are cold or prefer them for various reasons. This was the best thing we could come up with other than banning them.

Also, students have started taking advantage of some leniency in the cellphone and headphone policy. This has also been reiterated to students and teachers that cellphones and headphones are not to be used in the classroom other than by specific teacher instructions. Students had gotten to listening to their headphones or playing with their cellphones while instruction was taking place. Sometimes, they would take one headphone out so that they could "hear," but the music was still going on in the other ear and/or they could hear when their phone rang of they received a text. We feel this is a distraction and disrespectful to the teacher who is trying to teach.

Fair

A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5am. Increasing clouds, with a low around 46. South southeast wind around 10 mph.

Friday

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 8am. Some of the storms could produce small hail, gusty winds, and heavy rain. Cloudy, with a high near 61. South southeast wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.